Dive summary:
- By late 2013 the two companies hope to start collecting landfill gas from Republic Services North Shelby Landfill in Millington, Tennessee.
- Gas will be used for multiple projects around the US including as fuel for Republic Services growing fleet of natural gas powered trucks.
- During the first year of production the landfill is expected to produce the natural gas equivalent of four million gallons of diesel fuel, which would fuel 260 trucks for the year.
From the article:
Expanding the availability of renewable natural gas, leading solid waste operator Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) announced today an agreement to recover landfill gas from its North Shelby Landfill in Millington, Tennessee for multiple uses including as a vehicle fuel for its growing natural gas-powered fleet.
The agreement with Clean Energy Renewable Fuels (CERF), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE), is the second of its kind between the two industry leaders, with the first, at Republic's Sauk Trails Landfill in Canton, Michigan, which is expected to come online in September 2012...
